Hey all,
I'm not a professional modeler by any means. I'm more of a hobbyist to be honest. Most of the time when I model things, I don't do any concept art, and sometimes I use reference images from the internet (depending on relevance, obviously something that I'm modeling from real life would need reference images) but generally I don't draw out my ideas on paper mainly because I'm average at drawing (usually below average) and I find that I like to just take the image in my mind and just start modeling, modifying and changing up the geometry as I go depending on the look/feel I get. I've done some concept stuff for a particularly tough armor piece I was modeling mainly because I wasn't too sure what I was doing. What do most people do? Does concepting help people out?